The limits of religious tolerance / Alan Jay Levinovitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinovitz, Alan, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Public works (Amherst College Press)

Public works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of speech.

Toleration.

Religious tolerance.

United States.

Academic freedom--United States.

Academic freedom.

Religious tolerance--United States.

Toleration--Political aspects.

Freedom of speech--Legal status, laws, etc.

Physical Description:

70 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Limits of tolerance

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Religion's place in American public life has never been fixed. As new communities have arrived, as old traditions have fractured and reformed, as cultural norms have been shaped by shifting economic structures and the advance of science ... the claims posited by religious traditions--and the respect such claims may demand--have been subjects of near-constant change. [The author] pushes against the widely held (and often unexamined) notion that unbounded tolerance must and should be accorded to claims forwarded on the basis of religious belief in a society increasingly characterized by religious pluralism. Pressing at the distinction between tolerance and respect, Levinovitz seeks to offer a set of guideposts by which a democratic society could identify and observe limits beyond which religiously grounded claims may legitimately be denied the expectation of unqualified non-interference."--publisher

Contents:

Tolerance and respect

When religious beliefs are false (and some of them must be!)

The value of intolerance

Appendix [1]. West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (319 U.S. 624) decided: June 14, 1943 [Majority opinion]

Appendix [2]. Keyishian, et al., v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, et al. (385 U.S. 589) decided: January 23, 1967 [Majority opinion].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781943208043

1943208042

OCLC:

960812801